Claire's Garage Session Covers: Part 1 - Acoustic #3 By the Goo Goo Dolls

Hello lovely fellow hivers, especially those of you who share my love of music and support the wonderful music communities right here on the blockchain.

Some of you will know me already, through my musical coconspirator and collaborator - @JasperDick who has been making big waves here since he joined Hive just a few short months ago. @JasperDick and I play together in a Duo called MobeyDick and we've been gigging for about a year and a half now. That doesn't mean that we don't do solo stuff, in fact, @JasperDick has stared an absolutely awesome initiative where he asks members of the community to vote for a song for him to cover.

This is a superb way to grow and be challenged as an artist, and since I am currently moving from nylon string to steel string, I need all the practice I can get! So @JasperDick I am taking you up on your challenge and going to attempt to do a cover challenge too!

We will be doing some covers together, as already requested on Jasper's Music song request posts - but if you'd like to challenge me on my own, this is the place to do it.

Of course, I'm quite nervous...... my guitar skills are very rusty - and I can blame the guitar (which would be very silly as it's a phenomenal guitar and it happens to actually belong to @JasperDick's 🤣) but our deal is, if I don't play it, the lending period will expire! I have to work for it. I have to earn the privilege to play it! At least until I can afford to buy my very own steel string (I'm aiming to buy myself one for Christmas!).

Just like @JasperDick, any requests that I choose to cover will result in the requester earning 50% of the post rewards.

I do have some songs of my own, that I'd like to request myself to perform and in that case, I'll be sharing rewards with the wonderful music communities who've been so supportive in my musical journey so far.

In this installment, I was cheeky as heck, because I chose the song that Jasper actually covered for me in MUSIC: Song Request 50% HP Challenge - Week 2 - Winner: @naradamoon with "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley!

As Jasper said in his post, I couldn't ethically win outright (it would be pure nepotism!). But he did play it anyway and did such a beautful job. He even performed it live at our Cottage Club gig - where he suggested I learn it myself.

So

I did!

This song is incredibly cathartic for me, and is a perfect example of how one can be transported back in time through music.

There was a young man in my life who so wanted to love and help me, but I pushed him away and hurt him very deeply. He saw right through my pain. He tried so hard to love, rescue, comfort, and reach me, but I did not know how to be loved.

Hopefully, one day, I'll earn his forgiveness, but just like I've realised that some people don't deserve mine, perhaps I don't deserve his either.

And No matter what end of the stick you're on, you have to find a way to make peace with that and let go.

Lyrics for "Acoustic No 3" by the Goo Goo Dolls

They painted up your secrets
With the lies they told to you
And the least they ever gave you
Was the most you ever knew
And I wonder where these dreams go
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
No one's listening anyway

Your voice is small and fading
And you hide in here unknown
And your mother loves your father
'Cause she's got nowhere to go

And she wonders where these dreams go
'Cause the world got in her way
What's the point in ever trying
Nothing's changing anyway

They press their lips against you
And you love the lies they say
And I tried so hard to reach you
But you're falling anyway
And you know I see right through you
'Cause the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
You're not listening anyway

Source: MusixmatchSongwriters: John T Rzeznik